![]() “The FDA’s promise of transparency is, to put it mildly, a pile of illusions,” Aaron Siri, whose firm is representing PHMPT in the lawsuit, wrote in a blog post on Nov. The plaintiff and the defendant, unable to reach an agreement on a disclosure schedule, are seeking a hearing to argue their cases before the judge, who may eventually make a decision in that regard. The group filed the lawsuit (pdf) after the FDA denied their request to expedite the release of the records. ![]() The plaintiff, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), is a group of doctors and scientists, including Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Now, the agency is saying that it would fully release the records in question in 20,000 days, 55 years from today. It took the FDA exactly 108 days from when Pfizer started producing the records for licensure (on May 7, 2021) to when the FDA licensed the Pfizer vaccine (on August 23, 2021). The government told the court it has 329,000 pages of documents responsive to the FOIA request and proposed releasing 500 pages per month to allow for redactions of exempt material. ![]() The revelation came to light in a filing as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by a medical transparency group. 15 to give it until the year 2076 to fully release all of the data and the documents the agency used as the basis for the approval and license of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. In essence, the FDA wants 55 years to produce this information to the public. ![]() The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked a federal judge on Nov. ![]()
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